A Roman bronze appliqué of Artemis

Circa 2nd Century A.D.
In the form of a bust of the goddess, her head turned to the right, the hair piled high and secured in a knot at the crown, a fawn skin falling over her right shoulder with a chiton beneath, 4½in (11.5cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
With Marcel Dumoulin, the Belgian antiquarian, acquired in the 1960s and 1970s.

Literature:
For a similar Hellenistic representation of Artemis in the form of a steelyard weight, cf. M. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1971, p. 436, fig. 641.

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